The coordinated push to eliminate weather websites

[Dan Robinson]

I wanted to do some more research on southern US winter storms tonight, hoping to find some science journal papers or other types of resources on it. Go and search for "southern us winter storms". It's nothing but pages and pages of results of absolutely useless mainstream media articles. Holy cow, this really is the end of the internet as we've all known it. How could Google just totally abandon its reason for existing like this? Just incredible to see. I actually could do better at the library at this point!

As for the race to get everything into AI, I get the impression it's not going well. Google's AI Overviews are pulling info from things like articles in The Onion, including this gem when searching about Tom Coughlin's retirement:

"Tom Coughlin Retires from Family to Spend More Time with Team" is a quote from a New York Giants head coach who said he valued his time with his family but wanted to focus on other things.

Explanation

Coughlin said he valued his time with his family but wanted to focus on more important things. He also said that he would consider remaining with the Giants in some capacity. However, the Giants framed his exit as a retirement.

 

[Mike Smith]

Dan,

I often have the same problem. FWIW, I went to "Google Scholar" and found this: Synoptic-Scale Features Common to Heavy Snowstorms in the Southeast United States

 

[Jeff Duda]

Dan, what kind of articles were you hoping to find? If research based, then I echo Mike's comments: use Google Scholar. It is pretty decent.